15th July 2018

A week of hopes dashed, resignations and a visit. In the end England came 4th in football’s World Cup. Reasonable, I suppose, in that - unlike the US World Series - we really mean all the countries of the world. Upsetting, though, as the whole nation expected to bring the Cup home again. And then, on the crumbling political front, we suffered the ignominy of two senior members of the Cabinet resigning, making the already shaky Brexit negotiations ever more fragile. Then, along came the President of the USA, putting his foot in it in his own inimitable way. First he appears to upstage HM The Queen by standing in front of her. Then, at a stroke, he allegedly suggested Boris Johnson would make a better PM than Mrs May and stated that the new white paper - so painstakingly put together by the government to allow us to continue trading with the EU after Brexit - would mean no future trade deal with the US. Fake news? More like an own goal Mr Trump.